Paper-bag holder.



M. A. MACOMBER.

PAPER BAG HOLDER. urmoumx FILED 001'. 12, 1908.

Patented June 15, 1909,

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PAPER BAG HOLDER. APPLICATION II'LBD 00-1212, 1908.

Patented June 15, 1909.

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MARK A. MAOOMBER, OF PERRY, NEW YORK.

PAPER-BAG HOLDER.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Mann A. B/IACOIIBER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Perry, in the county of Wyoming and State of New York, have invented or discovered certain new and useful lmproven'ients in Paper-Bag Holders, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to a de' 'ice for use in grocery stores and the like, for holding paper bags adapted to contain various articles, and has for its object to provide a paper bag holder which may be conveniently mounted beneath the counter, so that it may be swung about to bring into convenient position the various receptacles containing the paper bags of different sizes which the holder is adapted to contain.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view, partly broken out, showing one form of the improved bag holder in position beneath the counter. Fig. 2 is a side view of the same, with the counter in vertical section. Fig. 3 is a detail view to illustrate the operation of the spring or friction fastening-device. Fig. at is a detail section on line lt, Fig. 1, showing a preferred form of bag-holding cell or compartment. Fig. 5 is a plan view illustrating another form of the invention, and Fig. 6 is a side view of the form of invention shown in Fig.

Referring to the drawings, 12 denotes a portion of a counter such as is in common use in stores, and 13 denotes a semi-circular receptacle attached to the under side of the counter by means of a pivot-bolt 1a which is in turn supported by a plate 15 screwed or otherwise attached to the underside of the counter. The receptacle 13 is provided with a series of cells or compartments of different sizes adapted to contain different sized bags, which compartments or receptacles can be readily exposed, for access thereto, by swinging the said receptacle outward, to the position indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 1, on the pivot-bolt 141.

To retain the swinging receptacle 13 in place beneath the counter, when not in use, so that it will not he accidentally displaced, and thereby get in the way of the attendant, a spring-holding device for the same is pref erably provided. The form of spring-holding device, shown most clearly in Fig. 2, comprises a bent wire 16 the outer end of Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 12, 1908.

Patented June 15, 1909.

Serial No. &57,398.

which is attached to the lower end of the pivot bolt 1 1 by a nut 17, and the inner end of which is turned upward at substantially a right angle and is provided with a loop 1% encircling a stud or screw 19 in the under side of the counter and between the head of which and the said loop 18 isinterposed a spiral spring 20 which serves to lift the inner end of said wire. A washer 21 is preferably interposed between the top of said spring 20 and the said loop 18. To the underside of the bottom of the swinging receptacle is attached a rib 22 preferably inclined or curved upward toward the bottom of the 5 id receptacle at both ends and providedat or near its center'with a notch 23 which, when the receptacle is in position beneath the counter, will receive the wire 16 so as to retain the said receptacle in place. The edges of the said notch are inclined, as shown, so that when a slight force is applied to the receptacle 13 the wire 16 will be forced downward, permitting the said receptacle to swing on its pivot, and when the receptacle is returned to place in either direction the inclined or rounded under surface of the rib 22 will ride over the said wire and force it downward until the notch 23 arrives over the wire, when the latter will immediately spring upward and hold the receptacle in place.

Any or all of the compartments or cells of the receptacle 13 may be constructed as shown in the detail view Fig. 1, in which 2 1- denotes a piece of tin plate or other suitable sheet metal bent into a curved shape and secured to the inner end of the compartment in which it is placed in such a manner as to form a curved end wall therefor. Paper bags, such as are intended to be placed in the various compartments of the holder or receptacle, are usually folded in such a manner that their bottoms are much thicker than their tops, and when a package of bags of greater length than the receptacle 1s forced into one of the compartments provided with the curved inner or end wall the upper ends of the bags will be inserted first and will be curved upward, as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 4, and thus the receptacle will be adapted to hold a large number of such bags the outer or lower ends of which, being thicker than the upper or inner ends, will fill the outer end of the receptacle.

Instead of forming the receptacle semicircular, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the bagholding receptacle may be made round, as that the invention provides a convenient pa shown in Figs. 5 and 6. XV hen made in this form the pivoted receptacle, attached to the counter 12 by the pivot bolt 14, will preferably comprise upper and lower disks 25 between which are a number of partitions dividing the receptacleinto wedge-shaped compartments opening to the edge of the re ceptacle, and into which compartments bags may be inserted edgewise. As the bottoms of the bags are thicker than the tops thereof of course the bags will be placed in the receptacle with their top ends inward, and the wedge-shaped compartments 27, which are of different sizes, will thus accommodate a large number of bags of differentsizes, as will be understood. \Vith this form of the invention a frictional spring-holding device, such as the curved plate spring 26, bearing against one of the disks of the receptacle, will preferably be provided, so that the receptacle will be retained in any position to which it may be moved by the attendant.

From the foregoing it will be understood per bag holder which is rotatably 0r pivotally mounted beneath the store counter, and which is convenient of access when it is desired to take therefrom a paper bag of any size which may be wanted.

Having thus described my invention I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent The combination with a counter, of a paper bag holder pivotally mounted beneath the top of said counter and provided on its under side with a rib having rounded or inclined surfaces and a central notch, and a spring-actuated retaining device arranged to engage said notch when said receptacle is swung inward beneath the counter.

In testimony whereof I atlix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

MARK A. MACOMBER.

Vitnesses FRANK E. XVATKINS, MARSH C. DEAN. 

